{"id":7771,"date":"2016-04-20T20:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T03:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2016-04-21T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T19:07:46","slug":"first-baby-photos-emily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomellisphoto.com\/blog\/first-baby-photos-emily\/","title":{"rendered":"First-baby photos – Emily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family\/first baby photo session with Elizabeth, Brad and Emily<\/h1>\n

Not quite seven years ago, I was the photographer at the wedding of Elizabeth Brownell and Brad Austin at St Louise Church in Bellevue. \u00a0About 2 months ago I got an email from Elizabeth. \u00a0She and Brad now had their first baby, a girl named Emily who was ~16 months old, and Elizabeth had remembered that I told her and Brad that I offered a completely free first-baby session to all the couples whose weddings I photograph. \u00a0She wanted to know if I still did those sessions; after all it had been almost seven years since the wedding! \u00a0I assured her that I did still do the first-baby sessions, and we decided to talk again once spring arrived.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago we set up a tentative time for the photos, assuming that the weather was cooperative; no small assumption in Seattle! \u00a0But the day came, and we had a nice warm sunny day for the photos. \u00a0We did the entire session in the front and back yard of Elizabeth and Brad’s house in University Place. \u00a0Emily was quite a kick to work with. \u00a0She is just over 18 months old, and had very definite ideas about how the photo session was going to proceed. \u00a0The nice bow that her mom\u00a0had carefully put into her hair was removed with regularity, but Emily would (usually) allow it to be re-attached without much fussing.<\/p>\n

Emily is a very fast moving little girl, and had a particular fascination with a patch of gravel in the back yard. \u00a0At one point she spent 5+ minutes carefully picking up individual rocks and bringing them to her father, who ended up with quite a handful of rocks before Emily decided to move on to other interests.<\/p>\n

Photographing a child of this age is always both challenging and fun. \u00a0Challenging because they tend to move very quickly, and can be somewhat unpredictable in their cooperation. \u00a0Fun because it is always a kick to try to make friends with a baby, who is well aware that I am not someone she knows and so is a person of whom to be at least a bit wary. \u00a0It took a little bit, but Emily quickly warmed up to me and was (mostly) cooperative about sitting still for photos (at least for a short time). \u00a0She was, however, quite determined that she was not going to be held by either her mother or father, so we did not get as many group photos as I would have liked.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos from the session. Emily is a real cutie,\u00a0\u00a0I hope you enjoy the\u00a0pictures!<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a> \"First<\/a> \"Close<\/a>
\n<\/a>\"First
\n<\/a> \"A<\/a> \"Emily<\/a> \"Emily-007\"<\/a> \"Emily-008\"<\/a> \"Emily-009\"<\/a> \"Emily-010\"<\/a> \"Emily-012\"<\/a> \"Emily-013\"<\/a> \"Emily-014\"<\/a> \"Emily-015\"<\/a> \"Emily-016\"<\/a> \"Emily-018\"<\/a><\/p>\n